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Show il. PHILLIPS SAID TO HAVE BOIST0l Purchase of Ann Declared; Strong Evidence Against ' Hammer Slayer LOS ANGELES, Ct I., Jul 11. Mr. Clara Phillips, whoso trial for the mur-l der of Mrs. Algeria Meadows has been set for September IX. is believed to have purchased an automatic pistol I two days btToro the young widow was; beaten to death witn a hammer, ac-cprding ac-cprding to a story the I-iOS Angeles, Times published toda; The Times located a duplicate rec-j ord of thp sale of the pistol which po-' lice departments require all dealer lh a ii actlcles to keep und found tho salesman, John H. Haney, Mho said the' woman who purchased the weapon seemed to resenibie in BVeVy dd.. the newspaper pli tures he had seen of Mrs. Phillips. I A statement from the sheriff's of-, flee declared the purchase of the pistol pis-tol such a Bhort time before the sla -ing of Mr. Meadows "was considered additional evidence f premeditation on the part of Mrs. Phillips." The purchaser signed her name as' Mrs. A. L. Phillips." The Initial are the same as those of the husbdhd of the defendant In the APa.low-. nv.ider j The age a given as J 7 ears, dlf- ferlng from the statement that she was 23 years ol ae. made lv Mrs. Phll-i lips to Jail officials when they wroto down a record of her arrival there. j S PERT w ! i n PISTOL Mrs. Phillips' husband wus quoteJd by Bherlffe deputies a.s having toldj them his wife, who was born in Te as, was an expert shot and "could cut' an apple In two with a six shooter at severed hundred feet. ' Kaney. ihe salesman. ?aid "as h? remembered It." the woman who pur- I chased the plKtoi asked "for just a! 'load' of cartridges, not u full box,", and officials started an Inquiry to de-Itermlne de-Itermlne the extent of the cartridge pu,r chase. The pistol has not been located. While the police and sheriff's der ; 'titles are busy on various angles of the; cuso and the attorneys for Mrs. Phil-I 'lips are working out the theory of he-' defense, which it is believed win bel Insanity, the defendant herself is set-' ;timg down tn the routine of Jail life.1 |